So, how should I distract myself after I lose the election?

[geniph]

for those who don't know, I'm running for office - a fairly major office - and I'm most decidedly a dark horse. So, how should I best distract myself after I get my ass handed to me? Should I indulge in vices that I've been avoiding because they'd look bad in campaign hit pieces? Should I get drunk and dance on tables at another candidate's election night party, since I can't afford a swanky party myself? Should I indulge in retail therapy tomorrow?

How would YOU distract yourself after losing an election you really wanted to win?

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Getting wasted at another candidate's party may boost your political cred.

I say go for it! :D

[GOPisEvil]

2. Get drunk, crash the victor's party, scream that the voters are uneducated

louts and inbred idiots.

:D

[geniph]

7. He's having a really swanky one, too

All the big-money donors will be there at the downtown Seattle Marriott. Hmmm...

[obxhead]

3. Follow the winners politics and

beat the pants off of 'em in the next election.

[geniph]

5. No one can figure his politics out

the slimy little weasel changes them pretty much every fifteen minutes. He used to be a Democrat until 1981, when he switched parties in mid-term and handed control of the state Senate over to the Republicans. I can't stand him. Never could.

[obxhead]

9. He's bound to be giving someone some room to steal $$$

Find it one way or another. Befriend lawyers and journalists. Dig up the dirt, back it up, and hand it to the voters on a silver platter.

If you can't do those things I don't have much positive advice for you. Thieves can be hard to out when they are backed by the people.

[lildreamer316]

4. Come over here and

get a table dance.
JUST KIDDING.
About you coming over,anyway. Can't get caught dead in a strip club, now.....

[geniph]

6. I'm more the GIVING a table dance type

not that I'm entirely averse to being on the receiving end, either. And that was one of the types of vices I was referring to that I couldn't do during the campaign. The campaign's over, so anything goes now!

WHEEEE!

[Zomby Woof]

8. Hey Geni!

I have been thinking about you and this night!

BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!!!! I wish we could be there for the Victory Party!!! :party:

:loveya:

[Lisa]

10. sounds to me like you've already gotten things under control ...

I applaud your being able to make some damned funny jokes about the whole thing! (My party generally loses, so one would think that we'd be used to it by now ... but it can be hard to get past the feeling that one has been rejected.) I love the part about getting drunk and dancing on tables at the winner's party. Mind if I steal it for the municipal election next week? (One of my friends is running for city council.)

To cheer him up, I'm giving him a surprise gift after the wind-down/cleanup party -- a two-handed Starfire stage combat sword (he's an actor and a Middle Ages buff, so I think he'll like it).